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  haak3 haa1   jyutping
  xia4; he4   pinyin
[] haak3 [] xia4
frighten; threaten; scare; intimidate; startle

[] haa1 [] he4
[interjection] tut; tut-tut; humph




Default PoS: verb Additional PoS:
Stroke count: 17
Level: 3
Radical: (#30)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
嚇 / 吓

This word has been viewed 9396 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:45

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detail  haak3 jan4   = [v] to scare someone
detail  haak3 fu2  xia4 hu5 = scare/bluff
detail  hung2 haak3  kong3 he4 = to threaten; to menace
detail  geng1 haak3  jing1 xia4 = to horrify, terrify, scare
detail  haak3 po3 daam2   = horror; horrible
detail  haak3 ngoi4   = dumbfounded; to be aghast (at); be petrified; be frozen
detail  haak3 can1   = to horrify, terrify, scare
detail  haak3 gwai2   = to scare or to frighten (used in stating one is not)
detail  haak3 sei2   = to scare to death
detail  haak3 can1   = variant of 嚇嚫
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Showing all 4 examples containing 嚇
detail 做乜噉樣
Why are you so frightened?
[Lit. do what scare completely this-way [particle]?]
detail 暈咗
She had such a fright that she fainted.
[Compared with its English counterpart, a Cantonese sentence that uses a resultative particle (暈 in this case) is much simpler in structure. ]
detail 嚇嚫!/畀佢嚇嚫
[She] scared me! / I was scared by her too!
[Lit. scared-bad-thing me! / I also by her scared-bad-thing!]
detail 原來係噉反而畀你
On the contrary, it's me that's scared by you!
[Lit. Originally like that, on the contrary it's me by you scared (particle) 原來係噉 is a useful phrase with no readily translatable meaning. (At least not consistently.)]

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: This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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